
It's been a while since I posted a journal with some cool news and links about the Tales series (infact this was my last one:
[link]). Mostly because rather than post each update one at a time, I let it all accumulate. In other words... if you don't like the Tales series...here's fair warning that BIG WALL OF TEXT (and pics) ENSUES!
A lot of this news has been circulationg around the Tales communties for a while...so if you visit lots of Tales fansites and stuff you probably already know about it all. I'm posting this to inform tales fans that watch me and don't openly search for info about the series. To put it plainly... this is LATE and kind of old news
Tales of Vesperia: PS3 A lot of you probably remember me posting a journal about the PS3 version of ToV being announced a few months back. It has now been released in Japan, and supposedly outsold all previous Tales series games in ONE DAY O_O; that's pretty impressive. There is still no confirmation of a US localization *sadface* The game is stuffed with new features like a pinata, and makes the Xbox 360 seem like a beta test or something. >w<; These new features include: new mystic artes, a new playable character Patty, new costumes, costumes for repede, sword dancer, new weapons and items, a new dungeon, redone scenes to include Patty, added scenes, voiced scenes that weren't voiced before, new attatchments, new titles, more Flynn, costumes for Flynn, and more more more
here are some examples of the new costumes:
[link]Patty makens a cuter Anise than Anise does XD lol. SO cute. Also... I would never ever ever take that costume off Estelle if I had it. She works perfectly as Chloe ^-^ "Star Stroke!"

he looks just like a little Lloyd

Yuri gets Judas' costume from Tales of Destiny 2 and Flynn gets a costume of Cless from Tales of Phantasia:
[link] both costumes fit them perfectly IMO ^_^ Yuri looks especially nice as Judas
Yuri also gets a costume of Asch from Tales of the Abyss. Flynn gets Luke (instead of Guy for some reason...). Estelle gets Tear. Rita gets Mao from Tales of Rebirth, Raven gets Ricardo from Tales of Innocence, and Judith gets Rutee from Tales of Destiny. I think some of the costumes are pre-order only... I'm just not sure which ones.
[link] Judy's Rutee costume + Raven's Ricardo
[link] Rita's Mao costume (awwwwwww)
other costumes:
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] The swimsuits are really nice...the only one I don't like is Raven's (
[link]). It seems they saved some of the best costumes for PS3
Here's a really good trailer for the PS3 version:
[link] (only watch if you've played the xbox 360 version or if you don't mind slight spoilers)
japanese box art:
[link]I'd love this version to come to the US

I'd have to get ahold of a PS3... haha
Tales of Graces
gameplay and battle demonstration:
[link]trailer:
[link]I'm actually really excited about this game. I haven't really looked up too much info about it besides trailers and stuff, because I don't want to accidently find spoilers. I actually have a wii, and this will hopefully come to the US. If it does, I will definately be getting it


^warning: above screenshot has been stupidly edited by me. Not actual game dialogue
Tales of VSI've been wanting to see a 'Tales of' fighting game for a long time ^^ Sadly, I am kind of disappointed with this one. Mostly, because it's on the PSP only and seems to have worse graphics than Tales of Radiant Mythology (unless all the videos I've seen are just bad) I would probably still want to play it though...simply because it has some of my favorite character in it *_*
Here's some videos:
Opening:
[link]character demonstrations and mystic artes:
[link] [link] [link] [link] [link] trailer:
[link]
[link] [link] [link]There is no confirmation at the moment for any of the titles to be US localized. Though......DO WANT XD